Node-T

A fast, Django-like template engine for node.js.

Node-T is a template engine inspired by the Django syntax. It has a few extensions and the templates are compiled to native javascript functions which make them really fast. For now it's synchronous, but once a template is read and compiled, it is cached in memory.

Basic Example

Template code

<h1>Example</h1>
{% for name in names %}
<p>
{{ forloop.counter }}
{# This is a comment #}
{{ name }}{% if name == "Django" %} Reinhardt{% end %}
</p>
{% end %}

Output

How it works

Node-T reads template files and translates them into javascript functions using the Function constructor. When we later render a template we call the evaled function passing a context object as an argument. This makes the rendering very fast. The template tags are defined as strings of Javascript code - which is a bit ugly, but there are helpers that will make writing tags easier for you.

The slots system will allow you to define your own HTML snippets that will be rendered with a special context.

Template syntax

Tags like {% for %} and {% if %} are closed with a simple {% end %} tag.

Some tags are missing or have different syntax.

Some extra tags are available.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 Dusko Jordanovski

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